Design, build, and operate production systems that evaluate AI agent behavior, detect risk, and support safe actions, translating alignment research into reliable capabilities across agent experiences.
Software Engineer - Applied AI, Defense Applications
📜 Description
- Design and build AI agents that help defense and intelligence users investigate questions, analyze operational data, develop plans, and produce actionable work.
- Improve agent experience through data-driven evaluations of memory, tools, skills, context management, and fine-tuning.
- Collaborate across teams to improve user workflows and create cohesive experiences across products.
- Build interfaces for directing agents, tracking progress, inspecting evidence, reviewing proposed actions, and refining results.
- Own features from experimentation through production deployment, translating mission needs into reliable, reusable capabilities.
- Analyze performance and optimize applications for speed and scalability with complex, high-scale data.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages
- Strong software engineering skills and experience delivering production applications
- Strong proficiency in React and Typescript
- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
✨ Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical
- Dental
- Vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
Full job description
The Role
Palantir's Defense Applied AI product team builds products that help the modern warfighter leverage AI for their most mission-critical work. You will help own the entire end to end Agent experience in our products and work relentlessly to ensure they deliver value for our users, while maintaining a high bar for quality.Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users and the technical challenges that arise. One day, you may find yourself collaborating with users to refine the UX of a particular workflow, the next you could be fine-tuning performance to enable low-latency or more accurate operational outcomes.
Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product and work collaboratively to build cross functional capabilities, streamline user workflows and continuously improve our software's efficiency and reliability.
We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and end-users to work optimally. If you’re motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable AI products, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the people who use them.
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